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Data shown in the highest to lowest lists are the most recent available but not necessarily from the same date. Please click on each individual country to see the date to which the data refer. As it is not possible to obtain meaningful comparative data on numbers of children in custody in different countries, we do not include juvenile imprisonment data in the highest to lowest lists.

Ranking Title Prison Population Total Prison Population Rate Pre-trial Detainees (%) Female Prisoners (%) Foreign Prisoners (%) Occupancy Level (%)
  United Kingdom: Scotland 7959 144 27.6 4.1 3.9 97.4
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 1881 97 36.0 4.6 10.6 77.8
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 87973 146 18.3 4.1 11.9 110.5
  Turkey 314375 366 14.6 4.2 3.8 117.8
  Slovenia 1829 86 26.9 5.4 29.3 135.9
  Slovakia 9717 179 13.9 7.8 2.6 84.1
  Poland 74548 199 11.2 5.1 3.1 88.7
  Norway 3012 54 29.1 5.4 26.2 80.7
  Italy 60924 104 27.6 4.3 31.2 119.0
  Ireland, Republic of 4883 91 18.9 5.0 15.4 108.2
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 87 131 19.5 5.7 9.7 79.1
  Georgia 9926 262 18.1 3.5 8.4 80.5
  Estonia 1805 129 17.2 4.8 33.1 61.9
  Czech Republic 19768 181 7.9 8.7 8.1 97.1
  Austria 9049 99 20.6 6.8 53.0 107.3
  Albania 5311 195 58.0 1.2 2.1 88.2
  France 74342 109 30.8 4.4 25.0 122.2
  Iceland 140 36 21.1 8.3 23.3 80.0
  Portugal 12185 116 21.5 7.4 16.8 95.0
  Romania 23608 124 13.0 4.5 1.1 120.6
  Kosovo/Kosova 1830 99 35.6 2.7 5.7 97.1
  Croatia 4073 106 32.3 5.9 12.0 100.7
  Spain 54197 113 16.1 7.1 29.1 74.1
  North Macedonia 2525 138 10.7 3.1 7.0 98.1
  Liechtenstein 6 15 100.0 0.0 83.3 30.0
  Bulgaria 6501 101 18.4 3.7 3.7 67.6
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 524 44 20.5 2.1 1.5 39.7
  Andorra 60 73 47.1 11.8 70.6 40.5
  Sweden 8635 82 26.9 5.9 22.1 105.0
  Germany 56325 67 20.6 5.6 27.0 77.6
  Azerbaijan 24698 244 25.3 2.8 2.0 96.2
  Serbia 10787 162 27.8 4.1 3.8 90.2
  Luxembourg 705 107 46.3 5.4 73.7 77.5
  Latvia 3229 172 25.4 8.4 1.8 67.0
  Finland 2839 51 23.2 7.1 16.3 94.9
  Armenia 2357 79 57.2 2.9 5.4 52.5
  Netherlands 11447 65 32.6 4.6 23.1 90.6
  San Marino 3 9 88.9 11.1 11.1 25.0
  Montenegro 1026 166 41.1 3.2 15.1 77.0
  Monaco 27 69 50.0 14.3 92.9 31.0
  Moldova (Republic of) 6084 236 17.1 5.4 1.5 91.9
  Malta 690 132 43.9 8.6 47.4 58.7
  Greece 10526 101 23.7 4.9 58.6 103.4
  Cyprus (Republic of) 947 103 24.1 9.5 52.1 173.8
  Belgium 11326 97 36.2 4.5 43.4 116.1
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 12 23 65.9 0.0 87.9
  Lithuania 4955 177 11.0 4.1 3.3 74.5
  Russian Federation 433006 300 25.5 8.9 6.2 67.0
  Ukraine 48038 123 35.6 3.9 2.3 54.4
  Denmark 4106 69 39.3 4.8 26.9 97.4
  Hungary 19499 203 22.6 7.5 11.2 107.5
  Switzerland 6445 73 45.8 5.9 71.0 89.6
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 90 103 20.2 4.4 1.1 65.2
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 146 135 28.1 6.8 25.2 69.5
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 92 273 26.8 7.1 33.9 93.9
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 1813 83 19.8 3.2 3.6 98.3
  Belarus 32556 345 16.6 10.8 3.1 83.4